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On August 6, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee sent a letter to the Fed’s Vice Chair for Supervision, Michelle Bowman, as well as Comptroller Jonathan Gould, and the FDIC’s Acting Chairman Travis Hill, urging them to address...more
President Trump has issued an Executive Order directing banking agencies to adopt policies to ensure that financial institutions do not use reputational risk as a basis for restricting access to banking services—a process...more
On March 17th, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) conditionally approved the application for the newly renamed SmartBiz Bank N.A. (“SmartBiz Bank”) to change its business model in support of its fintech...more
On February 7, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced that he will appoint Rodney E. Hood as a Deputy Comptroller and designate him as the First Deputy Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...more
Key Takeaways: Federal bank regulators plan for vigorous review of safety and soundness and consumer compliance functions....more
For followers of developments related to National Bank Act (NBA) preemption and the United States Supreme Court’s related decision in Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A., 602 U.S. 205 (2024), the waning days of 2024 proved...more
On July 25, 2024, the Fed, the OCC and the FDIC (the “Banking Regulators”) released a “Request for Information on Bank-Fintech Arrangements Involving Banking Products and Services Distributed to Consumers and Businesses” (the...more
The federal banking regulators (The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) issued on July 25 a lengthy joint statement...more
The federal banking regulators are seeking comment to better understand the relationship between financial institutions and third parties that work for them....more
The banking regulators have not yet gone out on vacation, as demonstrated by this grab-bag of announcements, speeches, rules and guidance: Acting Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC),...more
On September 18, 2023, the U.S. Basel III Endgame proposal was published in the Federal Register. The comment period ended on January 16, 2024, with the banking regulators (the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC) having...more
It is no secret that the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the OCC have zeroed in on banks' use of third parties for products, services, and other operations, the risks those arrangements may pose, and banks' responsibility to...more
On March 12, 2024, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu indicated in a speech that regulations may soon be forthcoming that would be designed to bolster larger depository institutions’ ability to withstand...more
On December 27, 2023, the US federal banking regulators proposed a new set of reporting requirements for bank loans and commitments to private credit lenders and intermediaries....more
Following the 2023 bank failures, the federal banking regulators (the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC) have signaled that they are seeking to develop more stringent bank regulatory requirements for larger banking...more
On July 27, 2023, the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment on a proposal (the Proposal) to implement the final components of the Basel III Capital Accords, often...more
On July 27, 2023, the U.S. federal prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) proposed new capital requirements...more
On June 6, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued final joint guidance addressing bank management of...more
On June 6, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, Agencies)...more
The federal banking agencies have published new guidance to help banking organizations manage risks associated with third-party relationships, including relationships with financial technology (fintech) companies. The new...more
In the past year, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) Biden administration officials, and other U.S. banking regulators have repeatedly voiced growing concerns about certain cryptoasset...more
Banking organizations should ensure appropriate risk management, but regulators are skeptical of certain crypto activities as principal. On January 3, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal...more
For those tracking developments impacting the crypto-asset space, the summer has been far from slow and leisurely. Multiple industry alerts flow daily with news of new legislative proposals, enforcement actions, and other...more
As we mentioned briefly in our newsletter last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) (together, “The Agencies”)...more
Regulators took a first step toward modernizing CRA regulations with a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The proposed rule would add more standardized metrics for regulators’ CRA examinations and more clearly delineate...more